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LLMs are great for rubberducking, to do pre-reviews, and sometimes code boilerplate (under supervision).
Nothing more IMHO
Nah, they're actually fantastic at brain numbing tasks. I like to feed it sql tables and have it act like an ORM, but without the tradeoffs of an ORM. I'd never do it manually, but it's far more readable and easy to work with
I also love using it for api's. You can feed it a response, say "hey, I just want the id, status, and amount" (or whatever) and it'll restructure the data for you
These are not hard problems... They are tedious ones though. They solve a problem by brute force, a problem we "solve" over and over because at the end of the day: programmers are lazy.
You can over engineer complex bindings until the cows come home, but a simple pattern with each field explicitly mapped is the best solution. It's just really, really annoying to actually do it